On June 12, 2025, a significant internet outage affected more than 50 major platforms globally, including Google’s suite of services. The disruption began around 2:00 p.m. EDT and was traced back to issues with Google Cloud infrastructure. This incident highlights the critical role that cloud service providers play in the digital ecosystem and the far-reaching impact of such outages.
Global outage triggered by google clouid issues – starting around 2p.m .EDT, downdeterctor reported a surge in reports. platforms like Gmail , google meet , search, drive,nest, and even google cloud console experienced failires
Third party service cascade – cloudflare , whose services depend partly on google cloud, and other providers also faced intermittent failures-leading to a domino effect across platfor.
Affected services included:
google services – search,Gmail, drive,Gmail,Meet,Calendar,Chat,Docs,Tasks ,Voice,Nest,Gemini
Music and communication apps- spotify , discord snapchat twitch
Developer and enterprise platforms – replit,GitHub GiltLab , elastic,bigquery , cloud memory store, cloud workstations, anthropic langchain,character .
conclusion
As of now ,most services have been restored, but the incident raises serious questions about the vulnerability of the global internet ecosystem.more details are expected as technical investigations progress.